05/24/2010

The cookies thing was funny and all, but if memory serves even the Dragon Age writers think fans make way the hell too big a deal out of it. I think the predominant sentiment people express whenever I post pictures of Sten is that I should have drawn him with more baked goods.

Yeah, I know it’s nitpicking, so feel free to ignore me, but with Commander smoking so many cigars, you’d think he’d know to use either a butane lighter or matches. Zippos and oil lighters leave a residue on the cigar that ruins the flavor, unless he actually likes the taste of lighter fluid, which is kinda badass in its own way.

There’s a meme out there that most comics (particularly New Yorker ones) still work if you replace the last bit of dialogue with “Christ, what an asshole.” I like that it fits perfectly in this one (replace “What the hell, Sten?”), as well as around half the of the prior comics (worth another readthrough of what’s up so far)

Though I didn’t get the reference, nice job on this one. The last panel’s word bubble positioning threw me a little, but maybe that’s because I read a lot of right-to-left manga. Don’t be afraid to cover up a leg or two if you meant for the upper right side to be read last. Hope you bring Snake or capt. Falcon back later though. I’ll be reading!

If you have him on your party when you try to cross to the circle tower, he bribes the Templar the the docks with them. If you ask where he got them from he says he “relieved” a fat kid in the last town of them.

There’s another dialogue tree that comes up if you have him on your good side where you ask him if there’s anything at all he likes about Ferelden and he’s like “what are those crumbly things like bread but sweeter?” or something like that you get like +15 approval from the conversation.

* Warden: “Can’t we work something out?”
* Carroll: “Hmm… I don’t know. Y’know, I am feeling a little peckish, though.
* Warden: “There must be food at the tower lets go.”
* Sten: “Parshaara! Here! Munch on these if you like.”
* Carroll: “Ooh, cookies!”
* Sten: “I am content to part with them if it saves us from this fool.”
* Warden: “Where’d you get those?”
* Sten: “There was a child–a fat, slovenly thing–in the last village we passed. I relieved him of these confections. He did not need anymore.”
* Warden: “You stole cookies from a child?”
* Sten: *dead serious* “For his own good.”

I totally was hoping to see Cap. Falcon since I discovered the comic! :D
Even if it’s still a cameo I’m really happy!

How could anyone fail to acknowledge all of his extreme manliness, even with that extra-tight purple suit, Very Fashionable Scarf and bright yellow buttons that are totally strategically placed to look like nipples?
…
I rest my case.
XD

Snake does strike me as a guy who would rip on someone like that. And I think we can dub you the undisputed queen of disgruntled facial expressions, because Sten (as well as other characters you’ve drawn) has some epic frowning going on.

I agree with most of the comments I’ve seen on most of the comics that have been posted so far.
I stumbled upon this comic like two or three weeks ago, and it has quickly become one of my favorites. So far, consistently funny, which is more than I can say about 98.625% of all the webcomics, the number being rounded to the up to the nearest hundredth.

Seconding the Hulk as tech support. I’ve even got some hellish IT stories for you if you’re interested, stupid people should -not- own any sort of electronic device. That includes digital watches, even of the non-programmable type.

Are large styrofoam letters and other Muppets also a sometimes food? Because Cookie Monster’s not Cookie Monster unless he’s showing at least occasional unrestrained gluttony on inedible and/or animate objects.

Cookies are never “a sometimes food” as the new management states… I’m sure that the real cookie monster is out there… devouring cookies and plotting his return. I’m not sure how to get rid of the ghola that they’ve got replacing him.

I saw some of your dA artwork and one of Jared’s adventures pop up on Halolz, and I loved the art styles, and i knew I had to track it to the source, and I was not disappointed. Your facial expressions are bloody hilarious and detailed. I look forward to more!

So…outta curiousity, since NBC cancelled Heroes, what’s the likelihood Sylar is gonna show up looking for a job here? :P

I just wanted to say that I absolutely *LOVE* this cartoon. This strip is amazing, but I rank this strip right up there with xkcd and Penny Arcade as places I go to EVERY time it refreshes. Thanks for the hilarious strips! :)

Who knows how many things you’ve posted in this comic, and this one’s the best of them. I literally fell out of my chair the first time I read this, and I can’t even think of a single panel of this one without impersonating a drowning goat through laughter.

FOR INCONGRUITY!
FOR CLASHING COLORS!
FOR UNEXPECTED VIOLENCE!
FOR BEING IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME!

I get where these guys are coming from. Once an emotionless living tank who swings a 6-foot sword for a living reveals that he likes cookies, there’s not much to do other than make fun of him. And then run. Run far, far away.